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An Inconsistent Beginning
Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report Last Monday, to commemorate Martin Luther King Day, Harvard men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker shared with his players an adage from the civil-rights leader: “The ultimate measure of a man is not …
A Scholar in the House
Tradition and the twenty-first century were tangled together in Barker Center’s Thompson Room on the afternoon of February 11, when Drew Gilpin Faust conducted her first news conference as Harvard’s president-elect. Daniel Chester French’s bronze bust of …
Issue: July-August 2007
From Crimson Madness to March Madness?
Introducing Harvard Hardwood, the Harvard Magazine basketball report On Friday evening, October 17, Crimson Madness—a kickoff event to celebrate the start of the Harvard men’s basketball team’s fall practices—began in normal enough fashion. Shortly after …
The Loneliness Pandemic
Bradley Riew ’18 had a calendar reliably packed from 9 a.m. to midnight. To him, that didn’t seem so bad. “You know,” he says, “you have nine hours to sleep.” On top of his schoolwork and various extracurriculars, he spent about 20 hours a week …
Issue: January-February 2021
Football: Harvard 22, Brown 14
After Saturday night’s game against Harvard at Brown Stadium, Brown treated the 13,511 spectators to a fireworks show as part of the university’s 250th anniversary celebration. Actually, the fireworks had begun about 45 minutes earlier. Trailing 14-6 and …
Convocation 2017: What Should an Education Be at Such a Moment?
“It was on this annual occasion of welcoming the incoming College class,” University president Drew Faust said at yesterday afternoon’s Freshman Convocation ceremony, “that a former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the late Jeremy Knowles, …
Loneliness—Bad for Body and Mind
Few people would consider loneliness a positive condition. Many come to know its unfortunate mental toll at some time or other during the course of their lives—but medicine is increasingly recognizing the physical toll it takes, too, especially when it …
Harvard Presidential Search Advances
As the committee consisting of members from the Harvard Corporation and Board of Overseers pursues the search for the successor to President Drew Faust , faculty and staff advisory committees were unveiled today. The members of the faculty advisory …
Decoding the Deep
Click, click, click. Sharp staccato reports, like firecrackers, or a spitting log as it burns, end in a crescendo of sound resembling a rapidly spinning cog rattle, followed by a final extra click. “Dive,” one sperm whale is saying to another. This is the …
Issue: July-August 2024
Nuclear Weapons or Democracy
The most fateful object yet to appear on this planet could be the “nuclear briefcase,” or “nuclear football,” a 40-pound titanium case containing top-secret information and tools that enable the president of the United States to launch a nuclear strike. …
Issue: March-April 2014
A Model City
‘‘ Homo sapiens tends to fall in love with miniatures,” says Fred Gevalt ’72, M.Arch. ’76. In his case, over the past eight years, in the basement of his home in Arlington, Massachusetts, Gevalt has painstakingly built a complex diorama depicting an …
Issue: January-February 2025
HBS Halts Hybrid Learning
Harvard Business School (HBS) announced that a rising number of coronavirus cases has forced it to pull back from hybrid (in-class and remote) learning for the rest of the semester. Although the Medical School has had its second- through fourth-year M.D. …
Cognitive Benefits of Healthy Buildings
Imagine a business that creates a perfectly energy-efficient environment by adjusting ventilation rates in its workplace. On paper, the outcome would seem overwhelmingly positive: fewer greenhouse-gas emissions to the environment and lowered costs to the …
Issue: May-June 2017
How the Pandemic Killed the Uninfected
When the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare health disparities among racial and ethnic groups in the United States, it appeared that a persistent public-health problem would finally get the increased attention it deserves. Population data from early in the …
Issue: May-June 2022
The FAS and SEAS Campaign Co-Chairs
The leaders of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) capital campaigns—scheduled to be unveiled at Sanders Theatre on October 26—include the following six co-chairs. ( Check Harvard Magazine 's …